Volume 1, Issue 2, Summer 2021
Worlds without Women: Tolkien’s Middle-earth
“My thesis began to unfold after doing some research on my final topic idea about Tolkien’s world, female characters, female gamers, and the stereotype that females are the love interests or damsels in distress. I chose autoethnography because it allowed me to add that personal angle to the paper because I am a female writer, reader, and gamer.”
Interview with Poet Jacob Meadows, Author of Shades
“It is in finding these solutions, the tape and the glue that holds us all together, that we find the beauty of who we are as people.”
Autoethnographic Literary Fiction: “Just One More Time…”, a Family’s Experience of COVID Social Distancing
“She has been so careful at work; she has had all of her shopping delivered for weeks, actually for months, now; she’s even wiped down the items with bleach as they are delivered, and still does. How can this have happened?”
Autoethnographic Poetry: Pandemic Poets of Puerto Rico
“Everybody is a poet in the sense that everyone was/is making do—and making magic—with what they had/have.”